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> My sister, several years younger than me, with lesser metrics, ended up at a top 5 school with nearly a full ride in scholarships earned

I'm unsure how to interpret this. Did your sister get into a top 5 school because the policy had changed several years later?

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I think the implication is that she got in because there are many more outreach programs for women to get into college. But I could be wrong.

There's almost no other explanation, unfortunately. Opinion on it does tend to be pretty closely tied to conventional political orientation, but I know plenty of women in tech (or other traditionally male dominated spaces like gaming) that don't really like this kind of stuff because they have a lot of friends from over-represented groups that have had a lot of difficulty in life that's basically ignored based on their demographics.

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